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Dr Sylvia Earle (USA) is perhaps the best known woman marine ecologist and conservationist in the world. She is a powerful campaigner for the seas and strongly encourages people to change their attitudes to the sea as expressed in her wish when awarded the prestigious TED prize in 2009.
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Peter van Kets is a passionate conservationist, one of South Africa’s top adventurers and international keynote/inspirational speakers and one of the judges in the 2013 SST photo competition.
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Mr Misaki Miyaji (Japan) is the mayor of Tobetsu-cho and a senior corporate advisor for Mitsubishi and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Until recently, he also served as an advisor to four presidents in Africa. Read more here

Prof Derrick Schwartz has been intrigued by the sea since he was a boy. It was this fascination and his recognition of the value of marine sciences that encouraged him to promote the seas, marine life and oceanography at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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After 25 years of working seven days a week on films, internationally acclaimed documentary film-maker, Craig Foster, has returned to the beloved golden forests of his youth, the icy waters and kelp forests of False Bay.
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